Word: apparatus
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...near at hand as it afterwards proved to be. To-day the Gymnasium entirely fails to accomplish the object for which it was built. Let any one who doubts this visit the place between the hours of five and six P. M., and essay to exercise with the various apparatus. There is need of room for more parallel bars, for more rowing-weights, for a lifting-machine, and other apparatus which we do not find here at present. That most useful exercise, too, of swinging the Indian clubs would be more tempting to the embryo Hercules if there were space...